Plays With Incidental Music - P

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• Peer Gynt (Henrik Ibsen, 1876)

• 1876 music by Edvard Grieg, from which he later derived two orchestral suites, Opp. 46 (1888), 55 (1891)
• 1948 music by Harald Sæverud, Op. 28

• Pelléas and Mélisande (Maurice Maeterlinck, 1893)

• 1898 music by Gabriel Fauré, Op. 80
• 1905 music by Jean Sibelius, Op. 46

• The Persians (Aeschylus, 472 BC)

• 1934 music by Marios Varvoglis
• 1940 music by Henri Sauguet

• Un petit ange de rien du tout (C. A. Puget)

• 1940 music by Darius Milhaud, Op. 215

• Phaëton, or Reckless Audacity (Joost van den Vondel, 1663)

• 1937 music by Willem Pijper

• La Pharmacienne (Jean Giraudoux)

• 1949 music by Henri Sauguet

• Phèdre (Jean Racine, 1677)

• 1900 music by Jules Massenet

• Philip II (Emile Verhaeren)

• 1918 music by Eugene Goossens, Op. 22

• Philoctetes (Sophocles, c. 409 BC)

• music by Alexander Ilyinsky (died 1920)

• Le Piège de Méduse (Erik Satie, 1913)

• music also by Erik Satie; sometimes described as an operetta

• La Pisanella (Gabriele d'Annunzio)

• 1913 music by Ildebrando Pizzetti

• Pizarro (Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1799)

• music by Jan Ladislav Dussek (with Michael Kelly)

• Plutus (Jollivet, after Aristophanes, 380 BC)

• 1938 music by Darius Milhaud, Op. 186

• Polyeucte (Pierre Corneille, 1642)

• 1881 music by Edgar Tinel (an orchestral suite was produced in 1906)

• The Post Office (Rabindranath Tagore, 1912)

• music by Heinz Tiessen (died 1971)

• Preciosa (Pius Alexander Wolff, based on Miguel de Cervantes' La gitanella; 1821)

• 1820 music by Carl Maria von Weber, Op. 78, J. 279

• Prince Potemkin (Kniaź Patiomkin; Tadeusz Miciński, 1906)

• 1924 music by Karol Szymanowski, Op. 51

• The Princess of Cyprus (Zachris Topelius)

• music by Fredrik Pacius (died 1891)

• Princess Dandelion (Jaroslav Kvapil)

• 1897 music by Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Op. 35

• La Princesse lointaine (Edmond Rostand, 1895)

• 1897 music by Gabriel Pierné

• Princess Maleine (La princesse Maleine; Maurice Maeterlinck, 1889)

• music by Lili Boulanger (died 1918; she also worked on an opera on the same subject, which was not finished)
• music by Maximilian Steinberg (died 1946)

• Prinz Friedrich von Homburg (The Prince of Homburg; Heinrich von Kleist, 1811)

• 1884 music by Hugo Wolf (unfinished)

• Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus, c. 415 BC)

• 1948 music by Norman Demuth

• Prometheus Unbound (Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1820)

• 1948 music by Norman Demuth
• music by Lars-Erik Larsson (died 1986)

• Protée (Paul Claudel)

• 1919 music by Darius Milhaud, Op. 17 (also 1955)
• 1955 music by Darius Milhaud, Op. 341 (also 1919)